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NeXT did it far earlier of course. NeXT used 4-intensity grayscale on its first machine (very tastefully) when most Mac was 1 bit black and white. The grayscale displays obviously didn't have any RGB phosphors, and were extremely clear for the time.

Take a look here and compare contemporaneous Apple/Amiga/Microsoft vs NeXT.

http://www.theoligarch.com/microsoft_vs_apple_history.htm

NeXT was 15 years ahead of competitors, both in UI and software architecture. Windows 95 was a low-end rip-off of NeXTSTEP UI, but at least they had the taste to rip off the best. Note the W95 close button. Note how Windows screwed up by putting minimize & maximize very close to the destructive close 'X' button. NeXT of course but the close button alone and the other menu on the other side.

| One he came back it's forced his developers to put a flat UI on the first iPhone.

iPhone wasn't flat until Steve was nearly dead. I have a very old iPod Touch that runs iOS 4.x. The UI is really good and nice looking, predictable, and fast and efficient. Better than my much faster iPad on 8.

Indeed. Bohr argued, even earlier, with Einstein on this issue, saying that stimulated emission was impossible. Einstein derived the rate equations for the laser.

People erroneously imagine that Einstein was wrong about quantum mechanics. He wasn't. And in two central areas, the Copenhagen interpretation (it is a useful approximation but makes no sense as physics, decoherence does), and the laser, Bohr was wrong and Einstein was right.

People will buy "Airtime By Google" more then "Airtime By Sprint" because Google doesn't (yet) have a legacy of toxic customer disservice.

Any Virtual Mobile Network Operator (there are quite a number, I'm on Republic Wireless) has to pay the marketing to acquire customers and take financial risks on payment terms.

The difference is that Google could help Sprint & TM with technical capabilities, backend networking, and organizing

Also Google will gain direct understanding about the performance and capabilities of wireless networks to inform them about how to design Android. And Google will learn how to run a wireless network, which they will eventually do from their satellites.

Google wants to run a comm system which will seamlessly transfer from wifi to terrestrial wireless to satellite wireless, and sell ads by the exabyte.

| How about a cryptocurrency that targets an inflation rate that is known to be economically stable, say 2%, by standardizing on a openly evaluated standard basket of goods. You know, how actual currencies work but without the middlemen of the reserve banks

Because you can't do that without reserve banks. And you can't have banks without a way of pricing money through time, and you can't price money through time without a debt market.

Hey cryptocurrency boosters, are you up to loaning bitcoin or something less popular for 10 years?

Find the person responsible for engaging in the illegal activities. Charge the person with those activities. Find the owners of the property. If that property is part of evidence of a crime, then store it unmolested as evidence.

If an owner is convicted and given a fine, sell the property to pay the fine, and give any remainder to the owner. Sentence the owner according to a law. If the owner is not convicted, give the property back to the owner with an apology.

| The Roman Empire fell apart because the gold coin was debased with less valuable metals and made worthless over time.

turned around, causality is

| Since President Richard Nixon took the U.S. off the gold standard in the early 1970's, the U.S. dollar has become increasingly worthless over time

One individual US dollar has become increasingly worthless. "The US Dollar" as a system, is increasingly powerful and useful over that time, and there were and still are many useful and profitable investments which more than make up for the depreciation built in to one single dollar. And precious metals are not a very good one.

| P.S., Some people believe that the world central banks are surpressing the prices of precious metals to prevent people from realizing how worthless the dollars are in their wallets.

In that case, don't fucking fight the Fed!

So they're printing increasingly worthless dollars are yet so powerful that they can suppress the precious metals EVEN MORE? And by printing so many more worthless dollars? How does that work exactly?

They didn't manage to suppress the equity market, the real estate market or the bond market, which can also, even more effectively, make people realize "how worthless their dollars are" by increasing even faster than a dollar. What's up with that?

PS, if you advocate a gold peg, go see Greece: it is suffering tremendously under the same equivalent peg of their currency to a German Euro. The message from facts of 1930-1933 was very clear: the countries in a major recession which depreciated first, came out better economically.

| First, 'SPDY was a very good prototype' followed by 'the most hideous of SPDY's warts removed' was summed up with 'the IETF can now claim relevance and victory by conceding practically every principle ever held dear

aka "not worshipping doe-eyed at my political whinging"

| in return for the privilege of rubber-stamping Google's initiative.'.

aka "they wanted to ship something that works, now"

Sure, it should be called 1.2 and not 2.0, but that's marketing BS anyway.

The consequences to NASA for publicly embarrassing Congressdroids over embarrassing pork insisted upon by such droids would be so much worse. The retaliation droids would in return destroy the primary science goals and missions of NASA.

Stennis was mentioned, back many years ago, as a prime geographical centroid of pork though hardly the only one.